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Come on, I guess you definitely have been asking a lot of times too: if the world still lives in emergency waste state, why don’t send a nice rocket ship towards the Sun or into the more remote space? I asked that an aerospace engineer friend of mine* who gave me an answer that can not be faulted.

The reasons why it’s impossible to ship off this kind of rocket are summarized in few points:

For those who – like me – are wondering what a payload is, you should know that is the carrying capacity of an aircraft or space ship, including cargo, munitions, scientific instruments or experimentsaccording to Wikipedia. This means that de-garbageing the planet continuously would take an excessive number of rockets, which then leads us to the next steps.

And if you also think – just like me too – that ‘space debris’ is the title of the new album by David Bowie, you should know that they represent in the technical jargon the collection of objects in orbit around Earth that were created by humans but no longer serve any useful purpose. These objects consist of everything from spent rocket stages and defunct satellites to erosion, explosion and collision fragments – thanks again, Wikipedia, for these inspiring explanations.

Continuing at this pace, the space around Earth will be no longer accessible safely from manned missions, i.e. with astronauts. And that will happen within 20-25 years. This will mean the collapse of so many things, since we use satellites for everything.

Can you imagine the scenario of the Earth, if a rocket full of rubbish were to explode into the atmosphere? A shower of burning banana peels, cans of tuna and lentils, and a perpetual smell of crap manure. In practice, the dramatic and smelly version of “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs“.

*Actually he is my trustworthy scientist – hidden in the shadows – who checks out my steps into the world of scientific dissemination. Do you remember the X-Files’ Smoking Man? That’s it. But he’s more wicked.